Word: program
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petition suggests a program that 'aims to bring about closer adherence to the present Student Council recommendation on the House selection methods and will set up definite standards whereby energetic men can all be assured of admission to the Houses on the basis of meritable work...
...agreeing to muddle along for another year, or perhaps for four years, as Professor Jones has suggested. But the Plan's California angels are not going to continue shelling out twenty-five thousand dollars a year if no concrete results can be shown before 1942. The History Program must be oriented in one of two opposite directions: into the formal curriculum, or into a new realm of extra-curricular education...
...drawbacks. It may reach only a handful of students each year. And it will inevitably face stiff competition from other activities. On the other hand here is a chance for a new technique in teaching, freed from marking, credits, and formal sanctions. The increasing participation in the Program during this year augurs well for the future...
...realistic solution of this dilemma would mean a compromise between numbers and the ideal of extra-curricular learning. If President Conant is still anxious for large numbers of Harvard men to be bathed in America's past, let the Program catch the Freshmen as they enter the Yard, fresh and eager to try their intellectual wings. Let the farcical Bliss Prizes be abolished and the money be given for the best Freshman essays on some phase of American civilization. This year's successful tie-up with English A can be extended to other Freshman courses, and will undoubtedly draw...
Harrison M. Rainie, Jr. '40 will be the soloist in a varied program consisting of the Harvard Hymn; two choruses from II Matrimonio Segreto by Cimarosa; Miserere by Allegri; choruses from the Birds of Aristophanes by John K. Paine; Nagdlein Im Walde, a Czechoslovakian folk song arranged by Dvorak; Bachanale from La Belle Helena by Offenbach; and choruses from Iolanthe...